01/03/2022
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"Mum, someone at School said World War 3 has started is that true?"
Talking and praying with your children prepares them for what they will hear elsewhere.
Talking with your children about war 🇺🇦 🇷🇺
⭐️ 0-8yr olds struggle to process abstract issues, war "far off" is beyond their ability to grasp. They are more likely to mirror others' feelings. Show them what depending on the Lord looks like, help them mirror that. Reassure them with what is true in uncertain times.
Mark 13:7 NIV,
"When you hear of wars and rumors of wars do not be alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come."
👑 Jesus has got it, we're safe with him.
⭐️ 8-11yr olds can process death and war a little more. School history lessons have introduced this concept. They are already asking questions, like the one above and have started to process the issue. The questions they are asking reveals that they have already considered an answer, ask them what that is. Probe their understanding, ask about their feelings and pour it out to the Lord. Share stories of individuals in Ukraine, pray big prayers and hold onto faith's glorious hope.
Isaiah 2:4 NIV
"He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore." ⚒
⭐️ 11yrs + can process the issues and have access to Social media. Keep listening and look for opportunities to open up a conversation to ask them what they think and feel, not to tell them what you do. Lean into the conversation, open it up, don't shut it down, ask with them what a wise response might be. Encourage them with what they already know that could help. Show them reliable sources of information and help them pull the truth in to this situation. 📖
Romans 8:35,37-39 NIV
"Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution of famine of nakedness or danger or sword?
No in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." ❤️
